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反恐疑云

　　埃及裔美国人安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米（奥玛尔•梅特瓦利 饰）大约二十年前，从埃及移民到了美国，与漂亮的美国姑娘伊莎贝拉•菲尔兹（莉丝•维瑟斯彭 饰）成了家，夫妻恩爱生活美满，育有一子，伊莎贝拉肚子里的第二胎也日渐成型。　　某日，安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米从南非出差回来，在华盛顿机场被神秘的黑衣人带走，原因是中央情报局认为身为化学品工程师的安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米是恐怖分子，想从他口中撬出有用的情报。倒霉的安瓦被“引渡”至埃及的开罗，交由驻扎在当地的中情局探员道格拉斯•弗里曼（杰克•吉伦哈尔 饰）和老奸巨猾的当地探员审讯。　　另一方面，身怀六甲的伊莎贝拉，坚信丈夫是无辜的，四下奔走，努力寻找丈夫的下落。期间，她虽然幸运地获得旧情人（彼得•萨斯加德 饰）的帮助，但终究不足以国家强势机构对抗，一筹莫展。　　与此同时，刚刚入行不久的特工道格拉斯•弗里曼，在目睹了CIA同事们对安瓦进行的非人道审讯时，也面临着良心的拷问。　　安瓦是不是恐怖分子？伊莎贝拉能否和丈夫团圆？中情局新手道格拉斯•弗里曼，究竟在这场暗战中发挥了怎样的作用？对这一切疑问的解答，必将引向对“引渡”政策的重新审视。

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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

狼蛛

　　本片是美国50年代一部优秀的科幻片。导演Jack Arnold运用特效，让一只小小的蜘蛛在银屏上变成一只体形庞大的塔兰图拉毒蛛。影片中的塔兰图拉毒蛛是一只十分可怕的怪兽，它四处破坏，但始终免不了灭亡的命运。　　经典科幻片，强烈推荐！

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